While the circumstances of students attending alternative schools may be different from others in the public system, their educational needs are very similar.  Generally, students in alternative education programs have significant learning gaps that were created at various times from the earliest grades of elementary school.  Unfortunately, the problem of learning gaps from elementary grades is compounded as more advanced concepts are meant to be built on a solid elementary grade foundation.  Consequently, many high school students enter an alternative education in desperate need of remediation in elementary and middle school concepts.

The Eduss program gives teachers and students in alternative education programs the tools to address these problems in a flexible, effective and efficient manner.  Elementary and middle school learning gaps can be readily identified with pin-point accuracy, then these can be quickly and thoroughly “fixed” by the adaptive intervention programs the system automatically generates.  The program’s inbuilt “aids” such as fully narrated and animated teaching slides  act as a virtual teacher allowing the student to move through assigned work at his/her convenience.  This frees up the teacher to focus on helping with more difficult educational problems the student may encounter, and other pedagogical issues unique to these students.  With its on-line delivery, the Eduss program gives students flexibility as to when and where they can access the program and move through their educational program.

The Eduss program also includes a unique tool called the Curriculum Designer.  This tool gives schools/teachers the ability to even adapt the content of the assessment and intervention tutorial to match their particular students’ needs.  This includes changing exercise grade levels to perfectly match their curriculum, and altering the exercises that populate the screening assessments and intervention tutorials should they wish to not use the default settings.

The paragraphs below give a brief description of how the Eduss program can be used in a remediation program for students in an alternative school setting.  For more information on the advantages of the Eduss system over other systems click on this link – Essential Keys to Effective Intervention.

Mathematics

Screening Students
The assessment module within the math program provides teachers with a simple, effective and accurate screening mechanism.  Assessments can be set for different parameters: global groupings of students so one teacher can easily monitor several students from different grade levels, or any other sub-grouping the teacher may see as appropriate to gather the necessary data.  In addition, the math topics to be assessed can be global by grade level,  global by topic level (assess students’ ability in all operations of fractions), or by individually selected sub-topics (say, adding fractions with different denominators).

In short, the assessment engine provides alternative educators with flexibility in the number and groupings of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics or sub-topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored and recorded.  Not only does this save the teacher’s time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides teachers with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  The Eduss printable reports provide criterion-referenced reports and also a normative comparison with peer students.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work. The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to intervention learning programs that perfectly match the student’s individual needs.

Monitoring Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program automatically compiles a remediation tutorial based on the student’s results in the assessment.  This tutorial is remedial in its nature.  It provides student feedback after each question is completed.  In addition, the tutorial module provides help in two ways.  Firstly, the student has access to a virtually unlimited number of worked examples of the type of exercise s/he may be having difficulty with.  Secondly, inbuilt targeted narrated teaching slides provide step-by-step instruction on how to master the concept or exercise type the student is working on.

The Eduss progress reports that are automatically generated as students gradually move through the remediation tutorial provide comparative “before and after” data, tabulating original assessment scores side-by-side with tutorial scores.  All elements of the report are date and time stamped.  In fact, the Eduss assessment/tutorial engine and its simultaneously generated reports are specifically designed to assist the teacher in fast-tracking alternative education students through their foundational learning gaps towards a successful high school outcome.

Another report or tool in the program lets the teacher time-manage and monitor each student’s progress through his/her intervention tutorial.  This can be done because the program generates an estimated time it would take the student to complete his/her entire intervention tutorial.  On the basis of this, teachers can adjust the time spent per week by the student on the intervention program or adjust the due date for completion.  This allows teachers to time manage intervention programs so students complete them in a timely manner.  The graphical progress reports allow the teacher to quickly monitor student progress to see if they are on-target, falling behind, or ahead of their intervention schedule.

English (grammar, punctuation, supplemental comprehension)

Screening Students
The assessment module within the English program provides an effective screening mechanism to identify learning gaps.  Assessments can be set for different parameters: global groupings of students so one teacher can easily monitor several students from different grade levels, or any other sub-grouping the teacher may see as appropriate to gather the necessary data.  In addition, the English topics to be assessed can be global by grade level,  or by individually selected topics (say, nouns, and adjectives).

In short, the assessment engine provides alternative educators with flexibility in the number and grouping of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored, and recorded.  Not only does this save the teacher’s time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides teachers with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  The Eduss printable reports provide criterion-referenced reports and also a normative comparison with peer students.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work. The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to intervention learning programs that perfectly match the student’s individual needs.

Monitoring Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program automatically compiles a tutorial based on the student’s results in the assessment.  This tutorial is remedial in its nature.  It provides student feedback after each question is completed.  In addition, the tutorial module provides help by way of inbuilt narrated teaching slides which give step-by-step instruction on how to master the concept or exercise type the student is working on.

The Eduss progress reports that are automatically generated as students gradually move through the remediation tutorial provide comparative “before and after” data, tabulating original assessment scores side-by-side with tutorial scores.  All elements of the report are date and time stamped.  In fact, the Eduss assessment/tutorial engine and its simultaneously generated reports are specifically designed to assist the teacher in fast-tracking alternative education students through their foundational learning gaps towards a successful high school outcome.

Phonics & pre-reading

Screening Students
The assessment module within the phonics-to-reading program provides an effective screening mechanism for the essentials of phonics, phonological awareness and mapping sounds and combined sounds to letter/s.  Assessments can be set to test all letter/sound knowledge and awareness, or targeted for sub-groups such as the short vowels or final consonant digraphs, or syllable formation, syllabic stress patterns, etc.

In short, the assessment engine provides the teachers with flexibility in the number and groupings of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored, and recorded.  Not only does this save teacher-time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides teachers with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work.  The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to intervention learning programs that perfectly match the student’s individual needs.

Monitoring Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program can be used to provide targeted instruction and formative assessment to remediate the student through learning gaps identified in the assessment.

The Eduss program automatically tracks the student’s progress and provides the teacher with the reporting data that is an integral component of a successful remediation program.